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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and intellectual systems that shaped modern thought. Kenny...
Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the...
Case Studies on Modern European Economy
Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled...
Catholic Modern
The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why,...
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have made great strides towards fixing some of the problems that plagued other societies for centuries: food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control...
by Greig Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Probate inventories provide an unparalleled and intimate glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England. After death, the items within the deceased’s home would frequently be itemised and valued room-by-room. As well as providing invaluable information about the rich diversity...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the...
by Harald E. Braun
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide....
by Janine Riviere
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations.
Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented...
Modern Playhouses
An Architectural History of Britain's New Theatres, 1945 — 1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Modern Playhouses is the first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building which took place in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on a vast range of archival material - much of which had never previously been studied by historians - it sets architecture in a wide social...
Modernity and Responsibility
Essays for George Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
What is it to be modern? How does the world look through the eyes of a modern? Is it possible to bring the sensibility of the non-modern to bear on the world around one? If so, how?
The essays in this volume consider these and a number of related questions in an attempt to determine how a thoughtful...
Melancholy and the Care of the Soul
Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions...
Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan
Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
By examining chanoyu - the custom of consuming matcha tea - in the Meiji period, Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan investigates the interactions between intellectual and cultural legacies of the Tokugawa period and the incoming influences of Western ideas, material cultures and institutions. It explores...
Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare
Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period to the mid seventeenth century. The volume is divided into...